Peter Rhodes on a chalk man, a spate of thefts and why people hate inheritance tax

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By Peter RhodesPeter RhodesPublished: Jun 6, 2023Last Updated: Jun 6, 2023Comments

Historians may rage, locals may sneer and ramblers may despair but I understand the decision by a cheese company to remove the male member of Cerne Abbas Giant on its labels.

Cerne Abbas Giant is carved into a chalk hillside in Dorset. For centuries he has been, in the modern words of one commentator, “clearly a binary giant who has a large phallus”. Or to put it another way, he is BGWLP. And in a perfect word the Giant would be displayed on the cheese packets in all his glory.

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